A Tale of a Tub: To which is Added The Battle of the Books, and the Mechanical Operation of the SpiritClarendon Press, 1920 - 370 pages |
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... seems probable that the book was published through the agency of a friend , who may have exercised a certain amount of discretion - probably a very small amount - in seeing it through the press . It was quite in keeping with Swift's ...
... seems probable that the book was published through the agency of a friend , who may have exercised a certain amount of discretion - probably a very small amount - in seeing it through the press . It was quite in keeping with Swift's ...
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... matriculated in the University of Oxford as a member of Brasenose College on May 20 , 1680 , aged 16 : see Foster's Alumni Oxoni enses . 4 This book was in the library this copy had , it seems , belonged to Sheffield xiv Introduction .
... matriculated in the University of Oxford as a member of Brasenose College on May 20 , 1680 , aged 16 : see Foster's Alumni Oxoni enses . 4 This book was in the library this copy had , it seems , belonged to Sheffield xiv Introduction .
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... seems , belonged to Sheffield duke of Bucks ; with whom Dean Swift does not appear either to have had , or to have wished for , any intimacy . In the first blank leaf the duke ( as is believed and there affirmed ) had written these ...
... seems , belonged to Sheffield duke of Bucks ; with whom Dean Swift does not appear either to have had , or to have wished for , any intimacy . In the first blank leaf the duke ( as is believed and there affirmed ) had written these ...
Page xxi
... seems to personate L'estrange , Dryden , and some others , who after having past their Lives in Vices , Faction and Falshood , have the Impudence to talk of Merit and Innocence and Sufferings.5 I P. 344 . 2 See List of Editions . 4 P. 7 ...
... seems to personate L'estrange , Dryden , and some others , who after having past their Lives in Vices , Faction and Falshood , have the Impudence to talk of Merit and Innocence and Sufferings.5 I P. 344 . 2 See List of Editions . 4 P. 7 ...
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... seems to have been made first in a letter signed Indagator ' which appeared in The Protestant Advocate for May 1814 ' , and was reprinted in The Gentleman's Magazine for July 1814 . The suggestion was repeated in 1893 by the late Mr ...
... seems to have been made first in a letter signed Indagator ' which appeared in The Protestant Advocate for May 1814 ' , and was reprinted in The Gentleman's Magazine for July 1814 . The suggestion was repeated in 1893 by the late Mr ...
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Page 169 - But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding, as well as common sense, is kickt out of doors...
Page 40 - ... seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Page 224 - Beelzebub, with all his legions, was come to revenge the death of many thousands of his subjects whom his enemy had slain and devoured. However, he at length valiantly resolved to issue forth and meet his fate. Meanwhile the bee had acquitted himself of his toils, and, posted securely at some distance, was employed in cleansing his wings, and disengaging them from the ragged remnants of the cobweb. By this time the spider was adventured out, when, beholding the chasms, the ruins, and dilapidations...
Page 86 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment found these words ; item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, etc., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Page 184 - I leave the world to taste a blessing which we mysterious writers can seldom reach till we have got into our graves, whether it is that fame being a fruit grafted on the body, can hardly grow and much less ripen till the stock is in the earth, or whether she be a bird of prey, and is lured among the rest to pursue after the scent of a...
Page 224 - ... end ; he stormed and swore like a madman, and swelled till he was ready to burst. At length, casting his eye upon the .bee, and wisely gathering causes from events, (for they knew each other by sight,) A plague split you...
Page 223 - The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts you came to the centre, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting to each avenue, and ports to sally out upon all occasions of prey or defence.
Page xvii - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted.
Page 163 - ... the very same principle that influences a bully to break the windows of a whore who has jilted him, naturally stirs up a great prince to raise mighty armies, and dream of nothing but sieges, battles, and victories.
Page 78 - Proceed to the particular works of the creation, you will find how curious journeyman Nature has been, to trim up the vegetable beaux; observe how sparkish a periwig adorns the head of a beech, and what a fine doublet of white satin is worn by the birch.